In her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters explored secrets and longing-capping off this lesbian romp with a utopian-socialist vision.Her intricate follow-up is just as sensual but infinitely darker, its moral more difficult to descry. OL551025W Page_number_confidence 92.33 Pages 378 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1101053119 Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might admire. Urn:lcp:affinity00wate:epub:c673310d-5c9f-46c1-80f7-34c8b4fe465b Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier affinity00wate Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1gj0kh53 Isbn 9781573221566ġ573221562 Lccn 99087554 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL59293M Openlibrary_edition Although initially skeptical of Selina's gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own.Īs in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:51:15 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA176901 Boxid_2 CH102701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Edition 1st American ed. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed.
Amongst Millbank's murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. "Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative…This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses."- The Seattle TimesĪn upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London's grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work.
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